page 160: '. . . a general metric at any point P is characterized
by the N2(N2-1)/12 second derivatives that
cannot be made to vanish there.' In 4-space = 20 degrees of freedom
in the determination (specification) of 4-space.

PARTICLE = OBSERVED PARTICLE.

No cloning means that we can teleport state by annihilation

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and creation, but we cannot duplicate them. This is a constraint
on chaos that arises naturally in the definition of the symmetric
Universe.

The transfinite network is a Platonic model waiting to become
manifest. How does it achieve this? By using the power of 'error
correction' to create and exploit structure to create more by
creating structures that feed themselves effectively off their
environment. This is just evolution by repeated reproduction and
selection.

Evolution requires memory, and we do not think fundamental
particles like photons, that are completely created and annihilated
in their interactions can have any memory [but they serve as memory
in a higher system]. These particles then have not evolved but owe
their structure to some deterministic constraint in the system.

My proper time is the interval between my actions.

The squared length of the line element may bear some relationship
to the probability calculated by quantum mechanics, since both are
features of an 'event'. A point in spacetime is an event. A line is a
history of events, an ordered sequence of messages whose causal
relationships define spacetime structure.

Does the world have a computer that works out gravitational
interactions or are they a determined consequence of some other
process, the simplest and most generic and universal process in the
Universe, the ur-process defined by eit, going around and
around, being dynamic. To be dynamic one must have two states at
least, and so the qubit becomes our ur-model.

General relativity constrains the projection of quantum events on
the 4-D interface we all share. This constraint operates purely in
terms of the energy of the event and takes no account of its
complexity, ie gravitation is invariant with respect to complexity,
simply does not see it except insofar as it is coupled to energy
[which may in some way measure the cardinal of the
complexity].

All our windows on the nature of the Universe, all communications,
are associated with an exchange between kinetic and potential energy.

GEOMETRY = ORDINAL NUMBERS
ARITHMETIC = CARDINAL NUMBERS

Hobson page 176: 'Einstein's equations are . . . a set of second
order partial differential equations , , , for the metric
coefficients gmn of spacetime.

They map physical logic to spacetime (?).

[page 8]

Hobson page 184: 'Only in four dimensions or more that
gravitational fields can exist in empty space.

Einstein: deterministic (computable) general covariance. We take
general covariance into the transfinite realm where it becomes an
incomputable network, built on computable foundations. Uncertainty in
quantum mechanics seems to represent the incomputable side of things,
ie interaction, communication and superposition of computable basis
states. The computers in a computer network are the bases of that
network, each one orthogonal to the others although sharing a common
communication subspace. The network is indeterministic because the
computers in the network can interrupt and redirect one another,
leading to a non-linear potentially chaotic system. Chaos is avoided
by the enforcement of communication protocols, of which, maybe,
gravitation is the doyen.

Error proof communication protocols contribute to their own
survival and the same is true for good software in general, both in
the realm of commerce and in the broader realm of all existence,
fitness and survival.

Hobson page 499 Gravitational waves travel at c (and therefore
have no mass and cannot be their own source?).

[Hobson page 189 'The fact that the Einstein equations predict the
equation of motion is remarkable and should be contrasted with the
situation in electrodynamics. In the latter case, the Maxwell
equations for the electromagnetic field do not contain the
corresponding equation of motion for a charged particle, which has to
be postulated separately. The origin of this distinction between
gravity and electromagnetism lies in the non-linear nature of the
Einstein equations. The physical reason for this non-linearity is
that the gravitational field itself carries energy-momentum and can
therefore act as its own source, whereas electromagnetic field
carries no charge and so cannot act as its own source. ]

page 524: '. . . the variational approach that we shall outline is
extremely powerful and provides the basis for much current research
into the formulation of classical (and quantum( field theories,
including general relativity and other candidate theories of
gravitation.

Hamilton's principle: A mechanical system whose configuration can
be defined uniquely by a set of generalized coordinates qa
together with time t and which experiences only forces derived from a
potential moves from one configuration to another in some a way as to
make the action S = integral (over time) of Lagrangian (
qa, qa dot, t) stationary.

A theory of everything must do much more than explain a small set
of cardinal numbers measured by physics. It must explain how
everything works so that we can 'fit in' with it.

Monday 23 April 2007

Soames
Churchill page 370 'Imagine what will happen to India

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when sagacious, scientific and incorruptible direction is
withdrawn.' Soames

DOUBT DESCARTES

page 391 (Soames) Churchill: 'If the Great War were resumed . . .
it will be the end of the world. How I hope and pray we may be spared
such senseless horrors.'

On the religion question: saving the world. How to write something
publishable, ie which will attract enough readers to pay for itself?
Getting closer to a story, but it takes so long. Fortunately my
enthusiasm grows as the task also grows.

Soames page 401: 'We are getting into the most terrible position,
involved definitely by honour and contract in almost every quarrel
that can break out in Europe, our defences neglected and our
government less capable a machine for conducting affairs that I have
ever seen.

On avoiding impossible situations.,

page 433: 'A thousand years hence it will be incredible to
historians that the victorious Allies delivered themselves over to
the vengeance of the foe they had overcome.

page 444: 'It is quite astonishing to reach the end of life and
feel just as you did fifty years before.' Happy but frustrated,
wanting power to guide the world.

Molecular biology = 4D logic.

[page 11]

Hilbert oscillator differentiates and integrates itself up and
down the transfinite tree whose lowest state is the quantum harmonic
oscillator.

Transfinite network = materia prima

We might say that there are no things, only messages. The task of
each scientist and every individual is to decode the messages it
receives.

Yourgrau page 36: 'In all processes in which the principle of
conservation of energy holds, the forces can be derived from a
potential, that is there exists a function V of the coordinates such
that that work done on the system in changing from the configuration
qi to q'i is equal to V( q'i) - V(
qi).'

We can think of this in terms f two binary strings, the input and
output of an entropy preserving Turing machine and the work done to
make the change is the Hamming distance between the two strings. We
would like to associate a different energy to every string. This is
possible if the elements of the string form a position sensitive
representation of the energy scale, a bit like Gödel numbering which
encodes strings of symbols as cardinal numbers.

What are the appropriate generalized coordinates of the Universe?
They are the particles (symbols) of the Universe and we say that the
transformation of one fundamental symbol into another measures one
quantum of action.

[page 12]

ALGEBRA = ABSTRACT ARITHMETIC

Hamilton's principle: 'a system moves from one form or
configuration to another in such a way that the variation of integral
Lagrangian dt between the path taken and a neighbouring virtual path
coterminate in space and time with the actual path is zero.' Yourgrau
page 47.

Page 49: 'One of the most salient characteristics of variational
principles is . . . that they express the pertinent laws without
involving coordinate system.

Quantum mechanics and general relativity are not 'what is' but
what is communicated what we see.

Greene page 129: [As we magnify
spacetime] 'The notion of smooth spatial geometry, the central
principle of general relativity, is destroyed by the violent
fluctuations of the quantum world on short distance scales.' Greene

The whole idea of 'quantum foam' is contradicted by cosmological
observations. Just because delta p.delta x = h bar does not mean that
if we observe delta x, we see momentum delta p, rather delta p is the

[page 13]

uncertainty in any attempt to measure motion.

We like the permutation approach to generating transfinite numbers
to the subset approach by writing permutations in the form of cycles
and see each cycle as a subset of the whole permutation. Different
permutations range from that that can be completely expressed in one
cycle to those whose 'atomic' cycles are just one letter, ie the n
cycles of the identity permutation of set of cardinal n.

DEGENERATE = NOT RESOLVED

The relativity of transfinity. In the Platonic world we talk about
the countably infinite set of natural numbers and there transfinite
permutation,. but all the theorems remain true if the cardinal of the
natural numbers is two or greater. If card (N) = 2, then three
is a transfinite number and so on. As the Universe evolves, it slowly
resolves itself by improving its defences against error so that the
cardinal of the resolved set gradually increases toward its Platonic
maximum.

Greene, Elegant Universe: String theory
sounds like a desperate dream on a par with Christianity in the realm
of credibility. Greene

FRUSTRATION: Bursting with energy but unable to couple to anything
(eg physical or theological establishment) to use it.

Tuesday 24 April 2007

Greene page 153: 'Particle accelerators . . . hurl bits of matter
such as electrons and protons at eachother . . . and elaborate
detectors analyze the resulting pray of debris to determine the
architecture of the the objects involved.

The whole problem seems to be in the interpretation of the
uncertainty principle. Quantum field theory assumes that the numbers
delta E, delta p, delta x and delta t in the equation (eg) delta E
delta t >+ h are real numbers. What if we go all the way to
quantization and assume that they are naturals, the delta p delta x
>= h becomes a Diophantine equation and all our problems with the
vacuum go away because all the deltas come from the set N =
{1, 2, 3, . . .}.

From Newton's time until the end of the nineteenth century
mathematicians spent much energy expanding calculus and making it
logically sound so that we have definitions of differentiability,
continuity etc which make the massage to the continuous limit
plausible. The logical definition of continuity developed in this
period was founded on the notion of continuity by cardinals, so it
seemed natural for Cantor to seek the cardinal of the continuum and
he set about doing this using logic to study sets of symbols, ie
doing mathematics.

The results of this mathematical work are everywhere to see, not
least in quantum theory and relativity. In other words, we can make a
consistent theory if we say that continuity means putting so many
points into a fixed interval that there are no gaps between them. So
even though a point has no magnitude we can imagine putting so many
of them in a box that they all touch, ie

[page 15]

the gaps between them may be ignored and the theory works out.

But is this really continuity.
Aristotle and overlap. ['. . . things are called continuous when the
touching limits of each become one and the same, and as the word
implies, are contained in one another. Aristotle, Physics V:3
226b10 ]

The metaphors of atom smashing lead us away from the truth, a
legacy of our nuclear weapon days.

A fighter. One who will suffer pain to achieve a goal.

Greene page 152: 'Recall that the problem in merging general
relativity and quantum mechanics turn up when the central tenet of
the former - =that space and time constitute a smoothly curving
geometrical structure -- confronts the essential feature of the
latter -- that everything in the Universe, including the fabric of
space and time, undergoes quantum fluctuations that become
increasingly turbulent when probed at smaller and smaller distance
scales.'

How you look influences what you see.

Wednesday 25 April 2007

Greene page 156: 'In a Universe governed by the laws of string
theory, the conventional notion that we can always dissect nature on
ever smaller distances, without limit, is not true.'

general relativity and quantum mechanics in a point-particle
framework.'

String is an extended object. In what? Can we interpret a string
logically as a proof?

Torture the body to release the soul. Is this a real feature of
our system, or something developed by the ruling classes to placate
the suffering masses. Certainly, poverty brings one closer to the
realities of life and survival.

SUPERPOSITIONED = DYNAMIC

The transfinite network is complex enough to represent a
superposition of all possible states.

Greene page 183: 'A physical dream is that the search for the
ultimate answers will lead to a single, unique, absolutely inevitable
conclusion. ideally, the final theory . . . should be the way it is
because there is simply no other possibility. If we were to discover
that there is only one logically sound theory incorporating the basic
ingredients of relativity and quantum mechanics, many feel that we
would have reached the deepest [or perhaps broadest] understanding of
thy the Universe has the properties it does. In short, this would be
unified theory paradise.'

But how does it explain the beg bang, the origin of life and this
exported interior monologue? Only a communication/computation model
is rich enough to do

[page 17]

it, but how does this relate to particle physics as we know it?

How come thee are so many protons (electrons . . . )? The software
explanation says that they are all children of the original proton
process that were born as necessary to serve different more complex
processes.

Explain the inevitable passage of time? We are on a 3-line through
4-space.

Thursday 26 April 2007

Physics in action provides us with a set of symbols and techniques
for their manipulation which have enabled us to build our world. We
are not alone in this. In fact the world has built itself, including
us, al by itself. It is this process of creation that we have to
understand if we are to fit in. Traditional religions have closed the
creation question, telling us that it is the work of an invisible and
omnipotent God, and that is that. People living on the understanding
that the Universe is divine and we are divine persons need to face
this question, however, in order to be familiar with and sure of our
foundations.

New Yorker: It is time for reform in
the religion industry. And earn two fares to the US. New Yorker

Mathematically, energy behaves like an incompressible fluid. Even
though it may be really particulate the continuous model is
sufficient for many purposes but not unification.

[page 18]

String theory introduces new letters into the alphabet of physics,
but it remains to be seen whether these new letters correspond to
anything in reality.

LETTER = EVENT

Can we say that the local quantum processes are deterministic but
that the selection of which of a superposition of exclusive processes
to execute at a given moment is outside the determinism. A turing
machine is a link in a chain (a channel) from input to output, but
something outside sets it in motion and reads its results.

Friday 27 April 2007

Life is a balance between searching and knowing. Both have their
costs, and so there might be an optimum level of investment in each,
given the technology available.

The invention of writing increases the availability and decreased
the price of memory in human affairs, and printing established
symmetries of shared memories which led ultimately to the creation of
a global culture overlaying the nation states created by the
invention of bureaucracy = paper based computation.,

The purpose of religion is to create a community of interest.

SPIN = WEIGHTING EVENTS - which is what

[page 19]

quantum field theories do by applying quantum theory to certain
Lagrangians (eg 'Standard Model')and trying to find models that fit
the observations.

What we are weighing is the probability of the occurrence of a
certain deterministic process.

SPIN, in the more political sphere is a made possible by the new
degrees of freedom opened up when the system begins to give meaning
to physical events. The physical layer is bound by local logical
consistency n as are the layers of meaning, provided that by 'local'
we mean 'in communication with'. Hence the desire of dictators for
secrecy - where there is no communication and so they can continue to
profit by the control they can exercise over an unwitting population.

Veltman page 249: 'The Lagrangian of the
Standard Model is quite voluminous and it is already a problem by
itself to get all the Feynman rules correct. Veltman

'The ghost fields must be included for internal lines, but they
should not occur as external lines. They do not correspond to
physical particles, but they occur in diagrams to correct violations
of unitarity that would otherwise arise due to the form of the vector
boson propagators chosen here. The proof of that fact is

[page 20]

really the central part of gauge field theory'. Veltman page 249.

All the vast complexity seems to contradict the idea that we are
trying to describe the simplest level of the Universe. it would be
nice to see it replaced by the basic software of a network, which may
e conceived as a set of Turing machines. The simplest such set,
containing the simplest machine, is the empty set, no operation.
Followed by the set NOP, NOT and so on up the scale each of these
sets requiring more memory for its implementation.

Pervert the course of justice.

JUSTICE - EQUALITY - MAXIMUM ENTROPY - STABILITY - PEACE

Quantum mechanics - probability plumbing.

PLUMBING = VOLUME (MASS) CONSERVATION

Standard model: although the processes are each considered to be
continuous, the actual number of discrete processes is discrete and
countable.

Our paths crossed and another person appeared, just like the
standard model.

Quantum mechanics attributes a dimension in Hilbert space to every
point in the continuum, thus

[page 21]

transforming the points in the continuum to variables, that is
memory locations with addresses in the continuum.

Saturday 28 April 2007

Revealing Vatican attempts to propagate its religion by international treaty

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Aristotle, and P H Wickstead and F M Cornford, translators, Physics books V-VIII, Harvard University Press,William Heinemann 1980 Introduction: 'Simplicius tells us that Books I - IV of the Physics were referred to as the books Concerning the Principles, while Books V - VIII were called On Movement. The earlier books have, in fact, defined the things which are subject to movement (the contents of the physical world) and analyzed certain concepts - Time, Place and so forth - which are involved in the occurrence of movement.' Book V is a further intoduction to the detailed analysis in Books VI - VIII. Book VI deals with continuity, Book VII is an introductory study for Book VIII, which brings us to the conclusion that all change and motionin the unvierse are ultimately caused by a Prime Mover which is itself unchanging and unmoved and which has neither magnitude nor parts, but is spiritual and not in space.Amazonback

Greene, Brian, The Elegant Universe: superstrings, hidden dimensions and the quest for the ultimate theory, W W Norton and Company 1999 Jacket: 'Brian Greene has come forth with a beautifully crafted account of string theory - a theory that appears to be a most promising way station to an ultimate theory of everything. His book gives a clear, simple, yet masterful account that makes a complex theory very accessible to nonscientists but is also a delightful read for the professional.' David M LeeAmazonback

Hobson, M P, and G. P. Efstathiou, A. N. Lasenby, General Relativity: An Introduction for Physicists, Cambridge University Press 2006 Amazon Editorial Reviews
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'After reviewing the basic concept of general relativity, this introduction discusses its mathematical background, including the necessary tools of tensor calculus and differential geometry. These tools are used to develop the topic of special relativity and to discuss electromagnetism in Minkowski spacetime. Gravitation as spacetime curvature is introduced and the field equations of general relativity derived. After applying the theory to a wide range of physical situations, the book concludes with a brief discussion of classical field theory and the derivation of general relativity from a variational principle.' Amazonback

Klir, Jiri, and Miroslav Valach, Cybernetic Modelling, Iliffe, SNTL 1965, 1967 Preface: 'The principal purpose of this book is to show the part played by cybernetic modelling in the solution of problems common to the animate and inanimate world. The system, its behaviour and structure are used here as fundamental concepts forming the basis of a wide approach that utilizes the model as a methodological instrument. ...' J Klir and M Valach, Prague, 1965.back

Luke, and Alexander Jones (editor), in The Jerusalem Bible, Darton Longman and Todd 1966 'The third gospel's distinguishing quality is due to the attractive personality of its author, which shines through all his work. Luke is at once a most gifted writer and a man of marked sensibility. ... The originality of Luke is not in his key ideas (they are identical with those of Mark and Matthew) but in his religious mentality which, apart from slight traces of Paul's influence, is ovewhelmingly distinctive of Luke's personal temperament. Luke, in Dante's phrase, is the 'scriba mansuetudinis Christi', the faithful; recorder of Christ's lovingkindness.' Amazonback

Newton, Isaac, and Julia Budenz, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman (Translators), The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, University of California Press 1999 This completely new translation, the first in 270 years, is based on the third (1726) edition, the final revised version approved by Newton; it includes extracts from the earlier editions, corrects errors found in earlier versions, and replaces archaic English with contemporary prose and up-to-date mathematical forms. ... The illuminating Guide to the Principia by I. Bernard Cohen, along with his and Anne Whitman's translation, will make this preeminent work truly accessible for today's scientists, scholars, and students.Amazonback

Soames, Mary (editor), Speaking for Themselves: The Persona Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Doubleday 1998 Jacket: 'Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly during the fifty seven years of their life together. . . . Speaking for Themselves provides a rare insight into Winston Churchill's extraordinary career, the central role he played and the world figures he met in over half a century of turbulent history. Clementine's interest in politics was almost as intense as his, and her political instincts acute. Here, therefore, are Winston and Clementine's vividly expressed reactions to the social reforms of the Edwardian era, the agitation of the Suffragettes, the Abdication Crisis, the early disasters and then the long awaited victories of the Second World War and the electoral defeat of 1945. But here also are domestic minutiae, society gossip, financial anxieties and minor quarrels,. nicknames, private jokes and endearments. . . . 'Amazonback

Veltman, Martinus, Diagrammatica: The Path to the Feynman Rules, Cambridge University Press 1994 Jacket: 'This book provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. The aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules, and to outline their domain of applicability. ... The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. ...'Amazonback

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